The new chairperson will have the most authority, but every member will have a vote and decisions will be made by consensus.

The organization is currently without their last president Dominic Wong, who recently stepped down.

Wong spoke about the organization’s existing deficits from the past couple of years and the immediate effort to curb overspending this past November.

Specific reasons for his departure are still unconfirmed. According to Harman, it simply had to do with the amount of time Wong was putting in.

“Dominic deserves a lot of credit. He rewrote the by-laws, spent 40 hour weeks here compared to the mandatory 20-hour-week,” said Harman.

“I knew it was coming, he was overworked. He had always intended to work until April.”

Wong indicated that he would prefer not to state the reason for his departure and that he “should leave it up to the current executive to explain his leave.”

Compared to last year’s audit, Harman says they do have spending under control now and he is happy to report that they should be breaking even this year.

“Everyone has taken a bit of a hit,” he said.

CESAR has downsized their full-time staff to four individuals and has cut back the part-time hires they assign to do classroom outreach programs. They have also significantly cut back on campaigns and services.

“We wanted to cut down so we weren’t so dependent on the boom and bust,” said Harman.

No names were given in affiliation with past money issues, but Harman accounted a lot of it towards CESAR’s intense growth while member numbers dropped once full-time student fees were excluded from their budget.